It forced me to realize that the pioneers before me did not fight for girls like myself to not capitalize on the sporting opportunities that are present today. Comparatively, they did not have half of the opportunities that I do at this moment in time. Lenskyj delivered some strength and weaknesses in her book Out of Bounds: Women, Sport, and Sexuality (Italics) of the past medical and societal ideologies that I will carefully analyze. The fundamental basis I gained from Lenskyj work was that women had faced…
Throughout the past 100 years, gender roles of men and women have started to change greatly in our society, and especially in the world of sports. Recently, female athletes have made great strides in gaining equal representation, and media coverage, in comparison to the past, where there was little coverage of female athletics. In addition, women have begun to participate in many sports that have previously been male dominated. Some of these sports such as MMA, and hockey have been perceived as “manly” sports, and many feel that women should not participate in them due to their physically demanding nature. However, even though many female athletes have been discouraged from participating in male dominated sports, women have continued to break…
Title IX was first created in 1972 to help increase the representation of women’s college athletics and stop discriminating and stereotyping them. In stereotyping women, athletic directors and coaches did not believe they had the physical or mental strength to play sports the same way men do. Many people were furious with the way women were treated and fought for years to enforce this law. While this enactment brought upon variation in women’s sports, it took a negative effect on the men’s side. Even when countless numbers of women joined collegiate athletics, there were still not as many as men.…
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In the essay “Children Need to Play, not Compete”, Jessica Statsky writes about the importance of children being able to have fun playing a sport without the pressure of winning or losing (152-157). Playing sports can be a huge part of a child’s life, but parents and coaches need to remember that sports are here to keep a child busy and active. Children use sports to make friends not compete with each other to see who is better. When sport oriented parents and over controlling coaches try to have kids play at a professional level this causes children to lose interest (152, par. 1). With this being said the parents and coaches need to realize how they are taking the game to an unsafe and unsportsmanlike level.…
In the words of Marcus R Fuller, in his work, “In 40 Years, Title IX Revolutionized Women’s Sports, but There’s Still a Ways to Go,” he declares that “in 1972, 7.4 percent (294,015) of high school athletes were female. That number was 41.4 percent (3,173,549) in 2010-2011.” (Fuller para 7) After Title IX the amount of females participating in athletics have increased unbelievably. Watching and playing sports now, most female athletes don’t even acknowledge Title IX. Raising in percentage, from 7 percent to 44 percent, of girls in high school sports.…
Gender based inequality has recently become a much debated topic. Feminism is on the rise and the fight for equal rights and opportunities for females is a common topic in contention among individuals. Regardless of the different perspectives of individuals there is no denying that gender is a common and unfortunate avenue for inequality. Girlfight was released in 2000 and challenges commonly accepted idea of gender both within the family and within sporting institutions. Social action towards overcoming gender inequality is seen throughout the progression of the story.…
Identification and Evaluation of Sources: For the historical investigation, I wanted to do something that was relevant to my life but also something that is considered history now. My life includes high school sports and looking at that and history, Title IX was brought back to my attention. In the year 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments Act, was passed. The basics behind Title IX were that if an activity was funded by Federal means, then no person, on the basis of sex, could be excluded from that activity or discriminated against.…
Sports have captivated humans since the beginning of time, games that involve hard work, strategy and athleticism; games that have been considered manly and dominated by man. Why is it that females were given the short end of the straw once again? Beginning in Greece women were not allowed to participate in the Olympics, for over thousands of years women were still not able to compete until 1990. Stereotypes of women in sports carry over into the Olympics, professional sports, school sports, and helps us understand how women athletes, transgender athletes and mother athletes have rose to the challenge and broke the stereotypes. Transgender athletes and women athletes struggle compared to men athletes in sports from the minor level to professional…
Those are the reasons that I think that boys and girls should be in different sports. It would be ac ward if you walk onto the football field and you hit a girl so hard she cries and then you look bad for doing what you're supposed to do. It would also be weird if you were a boy…
Equality between the sexes has been a long lasting controversy. From wages, roles in a family, occupations, and voting women have been fighting to be treated equally. When asked as a child, what do you want to do when you grow up? Most children want to be a college athlete and later become a professional athlete. Because of Title IX, young women have the opportunity to compete at a college level.…
“Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities” written by Michael A. Messner discusses the sense of identity placed upon boys at a young age that coincides with sports. Messner interviewed former professional athletes to understand the masculinities of sports on a more micro level. His article argues that organized sports are gendered institutions that are only there to make boys more masculine. This article argues that point very well though displaying the experiences of the retired athletes and how they became interested in sports, though his study may be considered a bit outdated in this day and age. Messner’s research from 1983 to 1985 came to the concussion that most American men did not considered boys men until…
Gender Barriers in Sport." 13 Feb. 2008. Web. Flynn, Scott. “Athletic Women Vs.…
An article focusing on injury statistics mentioned that a fewer amount of injuries will transpire in coed athletics as resilient athletes will reduce their speed and aggressiveness towards the reverse sex (Noumen 1). Sports that are coed are engaged at a more leisure rate for males but a swifter rate for females. The pace of coed sports help to implement responsible playing, therefore reducing the injury rate. An article written on the ban of coed games stated, “the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania has adopted a policy requiring boys on its school wrestling team to forfeit matches against female opponents” (Pilon 1). Forcing athletes to resign to diminish the risk of injury is unfair and teaches children to give up; leaving the male to feel superior to females.…
Outside of the educational aspects of gender equality, many professional sports teams are a part of this mistreatment. Women in order to be treated as equals, men need to see them as equals. For example, men are offered bigger income checks at the end of the year if they play sports. Many people’s opinions across the world have been that women are too fragile to play in male dominate sports. This unequal…